March 31 LOCS (CDC) Email

Subject: Laboratory Advisory: Updated Clinical Guidance on Testing Persons for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
Audience: Clinical Laboratory Professionals
Level: Laboratory Advisory

CDC recently issued updated clinical guidance for evaluating and testing persons for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). This LOCS message is intended to share the recently updated guidance with clinical laboratories that might be asked to perform COVID-19 testing.

The guidance reflects two modifications:

• Updated priorities for testing patients with suspected COVID-19 infection, presented in a printable PDF
• Reorganized Criteria to Guide Evaluation and Laboratory Testing for COVID-19

Online resources:

• Clinical Laboratory COVID-19 Response Weekly Calls
• CDC's Laboratory Outreach Communication System (LOCS)
• COVID-19 Information for Laboratories
• CDC COVID-19 website
• Register for CDC Health Alert Network (HAN) notifications, including updates about COVID-19. Enter your email address, search for HAN, and sign up

If you have any questions, please contact us at LOCS@cdc.gov.